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Rolf is going to Jail.

Do you think it'll be ok for me to sing Two little boys now and again still like I do?

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It may lead, little chap, to you having a mishap :)

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It's OK, he has special underwear for that.

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Thought so. It's all that playing gayly each summer's day. Eventually special underwear is needed :)

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That's ok. Chris lent me some of his special underwear :)

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Of all of the scandals this is the worse.

I mean .....Rolf!!!!

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It's weird seeing the headlines for tomorrow. Rolf Harris the sex predator.

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I think Rolf is looking at, at least 10 years. He has already admitted sending a letter to the father.

I think the sentence will kill him. The biggest trouble is here, how many more ' dirty raincoat men' that's what l called them, when l got abused in my early days.

The sad thing is that WHY didn't the victims come forward earlier. Yes, l could have told people earlier, but the guy died over thirty years ago - the only one who knows is my wife.

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With Saville, I believe he told some of the victims that if they told anybody then he wouldn't be able to raise funds for some hospital in Stoke and that the patients would have to be moved or would die because of lack of funds. So I read somewhere anyway.

I predict that Rolf will only get 6 months on each count to run consecutively, ie one after the other. Hope I'm wrong but that is my prediction for sentence.

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Not wanting to guess too much (having had the luck never to be in that situation), but the theme seems to be that victims felt they wouldn't be believed, and in many cases the abusers told them that over and over again.

Think back to when the first Saville rumours came out. Plenty of people point blank refused to believe them, and tarred the victims as "money grabbers". Who's your average copper going to believe, a vulnerable young girl or that man off the telly who just happens to know the chief constable?

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And also with the amount of females who claimed they were raped but lied about it must also cloud people's judgement as well. It seems now that any female who reports rape is put through such a lot of trauma with hardly anyone believing her. Look at that judge in a case where a bloke raped a 10 year old girl and believed the man's story that she had led him on or asked for it because of clothing she was wearing (can't find the article to link to it, think it was around 2 years ago though and it was in this country).

Sentiments like that make it harder for people to report sexual abuse. The attitude of everyone needs to change so that any and all allegations are treated equally until proven one way or the other. And anyone found to have lied about being raped deserves a custodial sentence, they should suffer as the man would have done had he been found guilty of a crime he had never committed.

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The problem with that approach is that a woman who is unsure if she should come forward or not would then be thinking "If they don't believe me I'll end up in jail", and possibly less likely to come forward.

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Judge: You have been found guilty of a number of despicable crimes and it is my solemn duty to pass sentence upon you today Mr Harris.

Rolf: I understand your Honour.

Judge: Well, can you guess what it is yet?

:)

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I'm surprised there haven't been hordes of people demanding he be deported by now.

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Yeh send him back home where he came from!

Where's he come from?